Putting up with a bully comes with a price.
Posted on 09/17/2019 7:42:12 PM PDT by Kazan
Agree.
He’s not wrong. Aggressive tyrants always push the edge of the envelope until they meet resistance.
That being said if they step too far out of line Israel is more than capable of dealing with them.
Agreed. Go full Carthage if there's another attack. Kill every living thing in iran. And tell the Turks they're next, just because.
Sorry warmongers, deep staters, government trolls and uniparty types - War with Iran has been canceled.
something will be done by some people, but it will not involved any of our troops.
profile of a weak kneed expert.
Ignores terrorism. Allows the enemy to gain strength and develop weapons of mass destruction. Ignores threat after threat. Ignores direct attacks on the US and its allies for decades. Ignores religious fanaticism thinking they are logical and susceptible to reason. Makes excuse after excuse to not use force to respond to force. Tells others they are chicken hawks, when they are too old to enlist, when they have sons in the marine corps. Pretends to be intellectual in the face of overwhelming information contrary to his own position.
Who's fighting the wars? The offspring of the "12 million" illegals who are now very much fighting age? If just 4 million of them were women and they had 5 kids a piece and 3 were boys--I'd venture you got a nice size fighting force there. That's not even counting the untold million men of fighting age that have come in in the past ten years. Not even counting the many 100s of thousands of fighting age that came in just this year.
Send them. Because you aint getting my kid, not ever.
Why did we go into the gulf the first time?
There are way more military options than just invade or do nothing. There is whole spectrum of military options. You are being too simplistic.
Chief “Sit to pee” chimes in.
I oppose boots on the ground.
I very much oppose nation building.
Although there are some issues with international law, my basic view is that if a nation like Iran sponsors terrorism, then we should respond with terrorism also. As an example: Iranian terrorists blow up an oil refinery, the US Air Force responds by dropping 1000 tons of bombs on the most populous Iranian city. You like terrorism? Have some terrorism.
I just don't want an 18-year War with US troops occupying foreign countries with little to show for it.
You know there is a whole range of military options than just invade or do nothing.
Don’t worry, when gas goes up to over $3.50/gal all these neo-doves will start chirping a different tune.
If this thread doesn’t convince everyone that Libertarians are in control of Free Republic then nothing ever will.
Maybe buffs in the air would work.
I never mentioned invade, but I did say American lives. Regardless, any kind of "kinetic action" draws us further into a military posture, and commits USA and Americans for many, many years to come. Thinking we can do this and then stand-down is too simplistic. Besides - who benefits? Do average Americans? NO.
Do Saudis and Israelis? YES!
We accomplished that by November 2001.
Since then we are concerned with girls going to school.
Putting up with a bully comes with a price.
The USA is now the world’s largest oil producer
Iran wants to sell oil, not hoard it.
Finally, wars raise oil prices, not lower them.
Try again
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